but dont let that distract you from the pot play 40 episodes ago
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I always thought that it seemed a hasty split decision that cost him his life and crown. I am sure at the time when Harold was faced with this decision with all the information he had at the time it seemed like the right call to March his elite soldiers to defend london. But I still think that he ought to have regrouped in place between York and london.
However, I just wondered what other people's opinions on the topic as I've never really discussed it before .
Sorry if this is the wrong place. I did ask this question in another forum while I got a well informed response when I tried to debate the issue it was deleted. By debate I mean a informative dialogue back and forth.
Now I am well versed in the history and politics behind it. I wanted to generate a genine debate and discussion on the topic.
As a follow-up, was there any form of resistance that lasted past the 1070s?
Alright so, every US law student is taught that American property law was derived from English property law which can be traced back to William's decisive victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. However, since we learn this from a law professor, that's pretty much the end of our history lesson. "There was a battle involving Normans in 1066. William won. He brought feudal property law to England. The end."
Say that William had lost at Hastings, would he still have likely conquered England anyway? If not, would England likely have adopted the same property laws or was the Norman system of doing things completely transformative? How strong (or tenuous) is this link from a historical perspective?
For such a famous and bloody battle, virtually nothing has ever been found on the site of this important battle- no warrior's bones, chain mail, metal fragments of arms or horses hooves, etc?
Do we today visit the 'wrong' battle-site, as investigator Nick Austin suggests? Secrets of the Norman Invasion
Wars will become bigger and more fatal and some day one of our most important historical dates in the present will be something that a few care about.
Anyone know if you need tickets to be a spectator at BOH and how do you get them?
What way could harold of won?, I'm writing an essay on how Harold could have won, here are my ideas.
- i read Harold's mom/wife begged him to stay and hold London, would he of held out?
- where were morcar and the other Northumbrian earls and their fyrd?, could he of waited for men?
- if he survived would he won eventually?
thoughts?
Say that the Normans are defeated in the Battle of Hastings and English remains Anglo-Saxon till this day. What do you think the language that we would be speaking now would be like? Would it essentially be Old English with neologisms for new concepts (e.g. Benam hΔo him his computer [she took his computer away from him]) or more like Anglish (a linguistic purist movement that seeks to eliminate foreign words in English and replace them with Anglo-Saxon words, such as fore-elders instead of ancestors)? Or a mix of the two? What about spelling?
Plus, I'm guessing that Brits, Americans, New Zealanders etc would have more Germanic names like Alfred and Aethelred rather than William and Henry.
